The Cocaine Coup: Bolivia 1980

Imagine waking up to a city where the law isn't the police, but the very

people meant to protect you, sold to the highest bidder. 1980.

General Luis Garcia Meza seizes Bolivia. But this wasn't a normal coup. It was funded

by white powder and dark secrets. The Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie,

was the architect. A Nazi war criminal training death squads for the world's first narco-state.

Bolivia became a prison. Democracy was dead, and the cocaine trade was the

only king left standing in the heart of the Andes. The Cocaine Coup.

A scar on history that never truly faded. Learn the why behind everything.